Subj : Re: Forced registration in Whistler To : Geo. From : Tony Ingenoso Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 11:42 am From: "Tony Ingenoso" Sounds like a nice basis for a fraud complaint. If they want to effectively revoke your license, then they need to send you some money back. At the very minimum, I'd litter their web site with a bunch of nasty 3rd voice postings warning other away. Just put up a CuSeeMe Blows Dogs web page somewhere. ;-> "Geo." wrote in message news:3abf8172$1@w3.nls.net... > Why forced online registration in Whistler is a bad idea. > > Ok, picture this. You've been running windows XP for a few years, so one day > for some reason you decide a clean install is the way to go. You reinstall > your OS but when you go to register it you find out that Microsoft has > dropped all support for it (it's an old version now) and you can't register > it. The software tells you that if you don't register it then it will shut > off after 30 days or whatever. > > Sound unlikely? Just happened to me with CuSeeMe. I was running version > 2.1.1.1, current version is 4.something. I reinstalled it and it and I can't > enter my serial number, the software tells me it's expired. This is the > non-demo downloaded version you get when you pay for it. I write to the > Cuseeme people and they tell me it's not supported anymore and I will have > to buy an upgrade. I check their site for upgrades and it says I have to be > running version 3 to upgrade. > > So in reality the software I paid for cannot be reinstalled and if I want > the current version I get no price break, it's like buying it all over > again. > > With the way MS drops support for old versions of windows, I wonder how long > it will be before you cannot reregister an old version online anymore. I > think before anyone buys windows XP that MS should commit to some predefined > time period where they guarantee that we will be able to reregister the > software online. Without that information I would be very worried about > using windows XP. > > Geo. > > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .